Biden discusses auto industry recovery in Ohio

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the United Auto Workers Local 1714 Union Hall in Lordstown, Ohio.

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the United Auto Workers Local 1714 Union Hall in Lordstown, Ohio.

LORDSTOWN, Ohio -- Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in a United Auto Workers union hall that the nearby General Motors plant continues operating because of government assistance that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney opposed.

"Without the bailout and reorganization continued by the Obama administration, General Motors would have been liquidated, Mr. Biden said. Initial bailout loans to General Motors and Chrysler were made at the end of the Bush administration.

"But for the sacrifices you all made and the courage of the president of the United States, all those GM plants would be closed, here and all across the country," Mr. Biden.